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Re: DOM Vs XPath + ancestor : whats the point?

From: "Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]" <oleg@--!----!---------------.--->
To: NULL
Date: 8/2/2004 3:57:00 PM
rvj wrote:

> While I understand that XSLT exists for transforming documents from one
> format to another, surely XPATH should be able to perform what is
> effectively a filtering operation ie only retaining the nodes you do want .

XPath is a language for addressing parts of XML documents. It just 
allows you to select a subset of a document. Then it's up to you how to 
process the selection result.

>  In other words the format of the file does not change - as its just a
> subset
In general subsetting of a tree is a tree transformation.

-- 
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com


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